Don't wanna be FAT!

Rail trail loop.  Everything is feeling good.  AP 7:10.  I officially signed up for the Salt Lake 1/2 Marathon and the Ogden Marathon.

2 mile warm-up, 10 mile AB, 1.8 mile cool down.  It was windy and wet.  I ran most of the AB on a 2 mile loop so that I could space the head wind out eavenly.  I averaged about 5:40 pace I'm not sure what my exact pace was because of watch issues but I know that overall average was about 5:40.  Individual mile splits were kind of all over the place because of the heavy winds.  Overall a real good strength building workout.  

Hooper Pathways loop.  AP:  6:56  

4 mile warm-up, 5k all out, 4 mile cool down.  The all out 5k was on the Hooper Tomato Days 5k course.  I was hoping to run it under 16:00 which I thought would be good considering it was after I've already done a lot of work this week and was in a nonrace situation.  For those of you that have ran the Hooper Tomato Days 5k you know that the course is flat as a pancake.  I ran it in 15:53.  Mile splits were 5:01, 5:07, and 5:07.  Weather conditions were great and I felt really good about this run as a workout. 

True recovery day.  Legs are holding up really well.  I was going to do 10.5 but I ended up snoozing the alarm a couple times because it was a rough night with the kiddos.  AP:  7:13

This was a real confidence builder.  It was the end of a hard week and I ran 25.15 miles in 2:35:25 which is an AP of 6:11.  I a big loop from my house going up 5600 S then on the back roads of riverdale onto the weber river pathway which I took to the 21st street pond and did a lap then took the West Haven pathway then I worked my way home on the back roads of West Haven.  I felt really strong the whole run and just got faster as I went.  First 4 miles were uphill the next 4 miles were downhill, and then the rest was pretty much flat.  Mile splits were:  7:16, 7:02, 7:12, 7:04, 5:56, 6;07, 6:08, 5:56, 6:15, 6:17, 5:48, 5:55, 6:04, 6:03, 6:00, 5:55, 6:01, 6:00, 6:08, 5:58, 5:53, 5:52, 5:50, 5:54, 5:49.  This makes me believe that I could run sub 2:30 right now on the Ogden Marathon course because it is mostly downhill and I would be in racing flats instead of heavy trainers and I would be fresh because I would back off, and it would be a race situation rather than a training run.  I'm just really happy with how I felt today and with how strong of a week I had.